Improvement in calendar-catches



R. C. OGD EN.

Calendar Catches.

Patented June 24,1873.

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ROBERT o. OGDEN, 0E NEW YORK, N. Y.

v IMPROVEMENT IN CALENDAR-CATCHES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 140,300, dated J une 24, 1873; application tiled y January 25, 1873.

To all @cham it may concern: to one side and then returned, extending past -Be it known that I, ROBT. C. OGDEN, of the pivotal point, forming a transverse brace, f New York, in the county of New- York and d, which retains the latch in the card, and at State of New York, have invented a new and the same time serves to keep it in planes perthe card whatever valuable Improvement in Calendar-Catch; and pendicular to the face of I do hereby declare that the following is a full, may be its radial position. clear, and exact description of the construc- The construction of the catch as above devtion and operatlon of the same, reference bescribed, and as shown in the drawings, gives Y inghad to the'annexed drawings making a it a crucial form, the spring-latch portion c L partl of this specification and to the letters being bent Iirst in one direction from the pivot f v and figures of reference marked thereon. and then in the opposite direction across the Lf Figure 1 of the drawings. is a front view of brace portion, whiclrlies ',my'calendar'with-cateli attached. Fig. 2 is a said spring-latch portion.

transverse section of same. Figs. 3 and 4 rep- Sometime I prefer to bend the brace portion resent my calendar-catch. in the form of a coil.'

Y This invention has relation to means for In using thislatchitis 'latching the upperv edges of the leaves of a suitable perforation, calendars or similar folding stationery to the pivotal portion b beco back or wall card; and it consists in the novel latch c then being on the face of the card,and crucial form of the bent-wire latch, hereinafter the brace d in contact with its rear surface, the more fully described. The object of the preslatch is ready for use.;

A ent invention is to provide a cheap and ef- WhatI claim as myiinvention, and desire to f tcient latch for the purpose mentioned, avoidsecure by Letters Patent, is-

ing theuse of rivets and other devices which The crucial latch for calendars,- consisting reqnire machinery for their rapid application. of a wire bent in the middle to form the pi vot atwright an gles with simply passed through z., in the card until the designates the back or wall card, and a. a in- I dcate the leaves, hinged to said Wall-card or tion, to form a r back by their'lower edges and folded upward. at right an Brepresents the latch, constructed of wire by tion and th bending the same, as follows: At about the brace to form the sp middle portion ofthe wire a short section, b, stantially as specified.

is arranged to form the pivot, upon which the In testimony that I claim the above I have ..iateh'tums At the forward end of this sechereunto subscribed my name in the presence vertically upward and of two witnesses.

thxr-obliqnely downward, forming the bent ROBERT C. OGDEN. spring-latch c,- which projects over the upper edgesiof the leaves a, holding'them in place. Witnesses:

At'the rear-end of the pivotal section the LAWRENCE MARDoN,

if 'wire is bent transverselyfrst being carried HENRY M. KEISER 

